Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I want to do rock operas.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.